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New @universityofgroningen #OpenAccess #publication in the spotlight:
➡️ Exploring concept creep: Youth’s portrayal of #ADHD on #TikTok
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmmh.2025.100489
Read our interview with corresponding author Wietske de Vries:
#OpenScience #SocialSciences #Behavior #Algorithms #SocialMedia #Misinformation #MentalHealth #Research #PhD
Social media misinformation driving men to NHS clinics in search of testosterone they don’t need / The Guardian
｢ But a wave of viral videos on TikTok and Instagram have begun marketing blood tests as a means of accessing testosterone as lifestyle supplement, advertising the hormone as a solution to problems such as low energy levels, poor concentration and reduced sex-drive ｣
I don't understand how
the people who want to protect their own sensitive information from corporations in order to stay safe and not become victims are deemed paranoid,
But the corporations demanding
to verify our identity asking for our legal name, gender, sex, date of birth, email, phone number, home address, location, IP address, MAC address, list of apps, purchase history, access to contacts, device model, official ID, passport, birth certificate, fingerprints, facial scan, palm scan, iris scan, preferred sleeping side, and underwear color are not? 🤨
@Em0nM4stodon You haven’t bought enough media, haven’t bought Trumpcoin, don’t own a platform that spreads misinformation and filters out truth, etc.
The narrative gets shaped by those who own information.
#bigtech #misinformation
Police arrested Takashi Tachibana, head of a political group that criticizes NHK, in a libel case that involved the suicide of a Hyogo Prefectural Assembly member. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/09/japan/politics/anti-nhk-political-group-head-arrest/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #takashitachibana #nhk #hyogo #japanesepolice #misinformation
Weighing the evidence on whether people can be inoculated against misinformation, with bonus commentary on the nature of evidence synthesis, how science should work, and the greatest gift psychology ever gave the world (answer: it’s Signal Detection Theory).
https://tomstafford.substack.com/p/helping-people-spot-misinformation
Weighing the evidence on whether people can be inoculated against misinformation, with bonus commentary on the nature of evidence synthesis, how science should work, and the greatest gift psychology ever gave the world (answer: it’s Signal Detection Theory).
https://tomstafford.substack.com/p/helping-people-spot-misinformation
"Increasingly, AI chatbots are unwilling to acknowledge that they do not know the answer to a question. Instead, they make stuff up. A September report from NewsGuard, which monitors online misinformation, found that “non-response rates fell from 31 percent in August 2024 to 0 percent in August 2025.”" https://popular.info/p/what-happens-when-you-trust-ai-for
#AIEd #AI #Misinformation
Writer Ketan Joshi, in his article for Crickey asks where the demand for #disinformation and #misinformation comes from? He reasons that in accordance with the laws of supply and demand, if there wasn't such a demand, peddlers of lies and confabulations would have given up by now. But they haven't. If anything there's more otf them these days. So many that it's getting hard to avoid the slop.
"A good chunk of the “demand for disinformation” comes from people who’ve been sucked under the wheels of modern climate-solutions capitalism, and crave aesthetically plausible justifications for the ball of anger in their chest."
Read more:
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/15/misinformation-disinformation-climate-change/
Writer Ketan Joshi, in his article for Crickey asks where the demand for #disinformation and #misinformation comes from? He reasons that in accordance with the laws of supply and demand, if there wasn't such a demand, peddlers of lies and confabulations would have given up by now. But they haven't. If anything there's more otf them these days. So many that it's getting hard to avoid the slop.
"A good chunk of the “demand for disinformation” comes from people who’ve been sucked under the wheels of modern climate-solutions capitalism, and crave aesthetically plausible justifications for the ball of anger in their chest."
Read more:
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/15/misinformation-disinformation-climate-change/
A Manila marketing agency waged a cyber campaign paid for by China to weaken support for Philippine government policy and to sow discord over the security alliance with the United States. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/06/asia-pacific/china-infowar-us-philippines/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #philippines #misinformation #us #china #taiwan #socialmedia
Employment-related scams rose by over 1,000% from May through July, when new graduates typically search for jobs, and nearly 1 in 3 Americans report have received job offer scams via text message, according to McAfee. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/06/economy/scams-us-job-hunters/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #us #jobs #cybersecurity #misinformation #fraud
PR firms are spreading climate misinformation on behalf of fossil fuel companies. Could Australia stop them? https://phys.org/news/2025-10-pr-firms-climate-misinformation-behalf.html
#Australia #environment #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #fossilfuel #fossilfuels #lobby #misinformation
PR firms are spreading climate misinformation on behalf of fossil fuel companies. Could Australia stop them? https://phys.org/news/2025-10-pr-firms-climate-misinformation-behalf.html
#Australia #environment #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #fossilfuel #fossilfuels #lobby #misinformation
Scammers are among the top political ad spenders on Meta's platforms, using deepfake videos of American politicians — including President Donald Trump — to promote fake government benefits. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/02/world/politics/us-deepfake-political-ads-meta/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #meta #misinformation #deepfakes #socialmedia #advertising #us
"Disinformation" has become such a contentious label in the United States that some researchers who study the harmful effects of falsehoods are abandoning it altogether. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/23/world/politics/what-researchers-call-disinformation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #misinformation #media #fakenews #internet
How are we to understand the Information Disordered Landscape created by #SocialMedia ?
Is Western Democracy being degraded by #algorithms ?
Excellent conversation hosted by Peter Geoghan of #DemocracyForSale, in conversation with Eliot Higgins of @Bellingcat
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